Decolonial History of Art: A Methodological Introduction

Carolin Overhoff Ferreira

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Decolonial History of Art

A Methodological Introduction

Carolin Overhoff Ferreira

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Decoloniality is a concept of resistance. Decolonization identifies the colonial thought patterns, ideas, and discourses that still exist today, as well as the socio-political, cultural, economic, ecological and psychological power structures and practices based on them. Their mechanisms of hierarchization and subalternization can thus be made conscious. The aim is to understand them and to assert non-hegemonic art and its epistemologies as equals that have been suppressed, attacked and marked as "other" by Western discourses. The critique of the Eurocentric Western epistemology that enabled and justified coloniality is therefore crucial. This book is a groundbreaking and overdue game shifter that accomplishes this for the discipline of History of Art.

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Groundbreaking and overdue game shifter that accomplishes decolonization for the discipline of History of Art
Identifies the colonial thought patterns, concepts and discourses in the History of Art
Suggests a decolonial universal concept of art

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Carolin Overhoff Ferreira, Professor for art history, Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	8
CHAPTER ONE: What is decolonization and what is its importance for the study of art? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
CHAPTER TWO: Why does the West study art and why do we make it? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
CHAPTER THREE: How does art relate to other forms of Western knowledge and what is its potential? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
CHAPTER FOUR: How did Philosophy and Theology relate to art and its power? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
CHAPTER FIVE: What is the relation between models of history, the arts, and their study? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
CHAPTER SIX: What is art criticism? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
CHAPTER SEVEN: How is art studied as an academic discipline? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
CHAPTER EIGHT: What is Brazilian art and how has it been studied? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	286
About the author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295

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eBook published on:

September 24, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783422802698

Paperback published on:

May 19, 2025

Paperback ISBN:

9783422802674

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304

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102

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783422802698

eBook ISBN: 9783422802698

Paperback ISBN: 9783422802674

Keywords for this book

Colonialism; Post-colonialism; Art theory; Global Art History

Audience(s) for this book

Kunsthistoriker/-innen, Kulturwissenschaftler/-innen

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